iOS 6.1 also in the works, but not in time for rumored iPad mini launch.

Apple may be rolling out a small update to iOS 6 in the next week or so, according to sources for BGR. iOS 6.0.1 is reportedly being tested by carrier partners in the US and should be ready by the time the rumored iPad mini is expected to ship, around November 2.

iOS 6.0.1 is designed to address several bugs, including screen glitches that appear when using the keyboard or folders (I have seen this personally on my iPhone 5), the LED flash not firing in some cases, sketchy Wi-Fi or cellular data connections, and unexpected access to Passbook details from the lock screen. The update should also add a control for iTunes Matching syncing via 3G/4G connections. Most importantly to enterprise users, there is also a fix for a problem with Exchange that can cancel an entire meeting when just one iOS user declines a meeting invitation.

BGR's sources said a more significant update, referred to as iOS 6.1, is also in the works. However, that update is apparently just now beginning testing internally at Apple and won't likely be ready in the next few weeks.

I've heard from two clients who have been hit by the calendar issue. It's quite a little bug.

Interestingly, it seems to affect EAS connections as one of those customers has done it through using the "Microsoft Exchange" connector to their Google Apps account. (I don't know how often that connection to Google Apps is used, but it's useful when you want to sync more services with your iDevice.)

Anyone else been having music player problems through bluetooth? On standard headphones it plays fine. However, with a bluetooth stereo headset or a bluetooth connection to a stereo, it regularly will play the wrong song, even though the artwork and name is correct. Hitting back to restart the track a few times will fix it, but by god it's annoying.

My iPhone 5 will not turn on the LED as either a camera flash or a flashlight (using the flashlight app). I was going to take it in but now I guess I should wait for 6.0.1. It will be nice to know if it is actually a hardware or software issue.

Anyone else been having music player problems through bluetooth? On standard headphones it plays fine. However, with a bluetooth stereo headset or a bluetooth connection to a stereo, it regularly will play the wrong song, even though the artwork and name is correct. Hitting back to restart the track a few times will fix it, but by god it's annoying.

Now that's a weird bug. When I run into a weird bug like that (whether in an Apple product or not), I often think to myself "at least it's not a show stopper and I can understand how this one made it through QA." In my mind I'm much more forgiving of the occasional, edge-case or unusual-case bugs, since they're less likely to show up in testing. (I'm not denying that it's annoying, though.)

I'm much more annoyed by the fact that iOS 6 has experienced GUI crashes on me in the middle of phone calls. The call is still going on, and audio still works, so often it's not a huge problem. But if I am on mute when the GUI crashed, and I need to unmute to say something...

Taking the time to completely restart my iPhone during a conference call means I miss a lot of the call. Never, ever happened on iOS 5. Has happened a few times now on iOS 6. It's only occasional, so I still have some sympathy for how this can slip through QA, but it's waaaaayyyy more critical IMHO than if the wrong song played through my headset.

Entegy, all carriers test builds of patches before they allow them to be deployed. In the Android world, that is one of the big reasons that updates take forever (or never materialize at all).

I realize all major carriers will test, but it just seems like the US telcos in particular are anal about it.

The U.S. telcos seem to have had a strategy of delaying OS upgrades as long as possible. It's long been suggested this is to encourage consumers to buy new hardware instead of just upgrading the OS. I had Blackberries for years. In that whole time, I would guess that less that 1/3 of potential OS upgrades for whatever model I had were actually released by my carrier. Blackberry forums were filled with instructions for downloading/installing firmware from non-U.S. carriers. It was one of the reasons Apple insisted on controlling firmware centrally.

In the telcos defense, though, Blackberry upgrades in that time period were notoriously buggy. So it is also possible that the U.S. telcos were just being more careful.

It is not my impression that telcos in Denmark have a say regarding updates. In the old times, they did. But that was back when you couldn't buy a phone that wasn't branded. This is now completely extinct.

Why should telcos even have a say on when to release an update for a phone ? It seams to me that they only benefit from being able to delay updates (forcing users to buy a new phone instead). Furthermore, 99% of the updates doesn't have changes that affects the phones capabilities of communicating over a defined standard.

The WiFi thing bothers me. My iPad 2 on 5.x could (barely) connect to my WiFi in the corner of my house, but on 6.0 it simply cannot.

I have the same problem too. After the update to 6.0, I cannot connect to my home wifi. Interestingly, it CAN connect to the work wifi or public wifi (restaurant). Just not my home wifi, which previously can. I think I'v read somewhere that the problem is quite technical and I really need to let Apple work on it instead of solving it on my side, since it might require hardware upgrade if I remember correctly.

It is not my impression that telcos in Denmark have a say regarding updates. In the old times, they did. But that was back when you couldn't buy a phone that wasn't branded. This is now completely extinct.

Why should telcos even have a say on when to release an update for a phone ? It seams to me that they only benefit from being able to delay updates (forcing users to buy a new phone instead). Furthermore, 99% of the updates doesn't have changes that affects the phones capabilities of communicating over a defined standard.

From what I learned, telcos can request fixes to the firmware of phones sold on their network that can piggy back on OS updates to be one package. Although I imagine this is less of the case for Apple, one of the many pitfalls of Android updating, and is part of the update issue with Windows Phone.

It is not my impression that telcos in Denmark have a say regarding updates.

As far as phones, in the US they definitely do have an odd amount of control, because they are still the source of phones for virtually everybody. (And they absolutely, positively misuse their control.) With iPhones, it seems to be somewhat less so, but by no means nonexistent. At least the carriers can't pack worthless shovelware onto it the way they did on my old Droid.

With iPads, one does wonder if the carriers get much of any say at all, even on the ones that have 3G/LTE connectivity. Unlike with phones, you get the update straight from Apple.

Really annoying bug where the phone resets and then fills in all empty spaces on all pages with overflow apps (apps not normally visible because of the 11 page limit). Really annoying after customizing my first couple pages for it to mess up my arrangement.

I'm much more annoyed by the fact that iOS 6 has experienced GUI crashes on me in the middle of phone calls. The call is still going on, and audio still works, so often it's not a huge problem. But if I am on mute when the GUI crashed, and I need to unmute to say something...

Taking the time to completely restart my iPhone during a conference call means I miss a lot of the call. Never, ever happened on iOS 5. Has happened a few times now on iOS 6. It's only occasional, so I still have some sympathy for how this can slip through QA, but it's waaaaayyyy more critical IMHO than if the wrong song played through my headset.

I on the other hand have NO sympathy whatsoever for what you describe! Phone Crashing during calls is what made me switch to an iPhone in the first place. My BB storm would crash all the time and take ages to re-boot. I will put up with a lot on a smartphone as long as it does the basics, i.e. be a phone. We have had crash free mobile calls for decades now, so there is simply no excuse for this.

Not had any Wi-Fi issues, but the IT dept at work has asked us not to upgrade to 6.0 until the Exchange bug is addressed (I beat them to it, whoops). I have had the screen flicker issue on my iPad 3, thought it was perhaps hardware, good to know it isn't. Definitely some crappy bugs in this one.

The "Outlook meeting cancellation" glitch has been a real pain. It created enough of a headache at my enterprise (5,000+ users) that the central IT office had to send out guidance to users to not decline meeting requests from an iPhone or iPad if running iOS 6, instead perform this action when back at the desktop.

Has anyone else noticed a marked decrease in Bluetooth audio quality on the iPhone 5? On my 4S, it worked perfectly and sounded fine on both my headset & in the car. Now with the 5, it's choppy, muted and sounds like there is almost some sort of interference. I was running both iOS 5 & 6 on the 4S with no issues, so not sure if it's an iPhone 5 issue or a combination of the phone & iOS 6.